Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War (Audiobook)

from damcg63

This is a raw and brutally vivid memoir by a US marine who fought in the Pacific in World War 2. He also happens to be an accomplished author and biographer, so the prose is beautiful. The story itself is not - it is rough and disturbing - but it feels accurate. It is a close-up view of the absur...

from kcshankd

This one will stick with you. The author, who would go on to a career as historian with biographies of Churchill, MacArthur, and several other works, first survived the Pacific Theater as an enlisted Marine. It is as bad as you think, if not worse. He received his 'million dollar' wound on Okinaw...

from McGrewc

Gripping tale in which Manchester relates the horrors he faced as a Marine on several Pacific islands. The chapters leapfrog between narrative accounts of his personal battles and chapters in which he returns to each of the islands to slowly defeat the inner darkness the memories caused him for d...

from stevesmits

William Manchester, one of the premier writers of the post-war era, was a combat Marine in the Pacific theater. He, along with other members of his unit, wase among the comparatively few college students, many from Ivy league schools, who served as enlisted soldiers in the Marines. Manchester wri...

from BradKautz

Ground warfare in the Pacific during World War II was brutal. It was fought by men who had a different sense of place and purpose in the world than what we would commonly find in our culture today. At some point in time the American's who fought during that war came to be characterized as "the gr...